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2017 Hanover County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hanover County, VA went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 235K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 993rd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hanover County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 14, 2017 05:30 | March 16, 2017 01:15 | 1d 19h | 13,957 | 79K |
| 2 | June 19, 2017 17:45 | June 21, 2017 01:00 | 1d 7h | 5,972 | 17K |
| 3 | December 8, 2017 21:45 | December 12, 2017 01:15 | 3d 3h | 5,492 | 43K |
| 4 | November 24, 2017 10:00 | November 25, 2017 00:30 | 14h 30m | 2,272 | 1,676 |
| 5 | July 23, 2017 15:00 | July 24, 2017 20:45 | 1d 5h | 2,107 | 6,564 |
| 6 | July 28, 2017 23:30 | July 29, 2017 20:30 | 21h | 1,895 | 4,903 |
| 7 | May 29, 2017 02:30 | May 29, 2017 08:45 | 6h 15m | 1,817 | 5,896 |
| 8 | June 17, 2017 21:30 | June 18, 2017 19:45 | 22h 15m | 1,813 | 2,295 |
| 9 | December 22, 2017 11:30 | December 22, 2017 22:15 | 10h 45m | 1,448 | 802 |
| 10 | February 13, 2017 06:15 | February 13, 2017 15:45 | 9h 30m | 1,432 | 1,283 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 70 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Hanover County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 1.94 | 2.0 hrs | 1.49 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Virginia's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 49,633 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Hanover County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hanover County, VA annual power outage report, 2017, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/virginia/hanover-county